All Episodes
New Persuasive Words — 372 episodes
Episode 402: The Scandal of Particularity Revisited
Episode 401: Whose Christian America?
Episode 400: The Courage to Hope
Episode 399: Just War or Just Trump?
Episode 398: WWGD: What Would Genghis Do?
Episode 397: Is this a Religious War?
Episode 396: Was the Enlightenment a Mistake?
Episode 395: The Second Death of Charlie Kirk
Episode 394: Mansplaining God to the Pope
Episode 393: The Myth of Post-Religious America
Episode 392: Is it Time to use the "F" Word?
Episode 391: Progressive Faith and the Question of Theology
Episode 390: Reforming the Reformers? Dave Fitch, Neo-Baptists, and a Misread Reformation
Episode 389: Invasion and Enforcement: A Week That Shook America
Episode 388: Wonder in the Dark: The Mystery of Christmas
Episode 387: Who Gets To Belong?
Episode 386: Arian Heresy, Aryan Headaches
Episode 385: Converting the Barbarians
Episode 384: The Afternoon of Christianity
Episode 383: Christian Nationalism and the Future of the Republic, LIVE from Manchester, Vermont!
Episode 382: Does The Reformation Still Matter?
Episode 381: The New Axial Age?
Episode 380: Something Is Stirring — And It’s Not Revival
Episode 379: The Freedom of Letting Go: Surrender, Sacrifice, and the Culture of Control
Episode 378: The Case Against The Case For Christian Nationalism
Episode 377: When Persuasion Fails
Episode 376: The Poor Mind's Gnosticism
Episode 375: New Persuasive Words Live: America After Kirk
Episode 374: Hitler, Fascists, and Nazis: Naming Evil or Feeding It?
Episode 373: The Shooting of Charlie Kirk and the Soul of America
Episode 372: Do Our Rights Come From God?
Episode 371: Why Do So Many People Think Trump Is Good?
Episode 370: Is Stoicism Christian?
Episode 369: The Gaul of Bitterness
Episode 368: Making Demythologizing Great Again
Episode 367: The Airing of Grievances
Episode 366: Why is there so much Bullsh#*???
Episode 365: Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran
Episode 364: History as Revelation
Episode 363: Dying to Live: Death and Resurrection as the Key to Life
Episode 362: Can The Trinity Save Democracy?
Episode 361: Come On Spirit, Light My Fire
Episode 360: Lifted Up: The Meaning of Christ’s Ascension
Episode 359: An Augustinian on the Chair of Peter: Further Reflections on Pope Leo XIV
Episode 358: The American Pope
Episode 357: Grace In Politics
Episode 356: Paganism, Power, and the Promise of Rehumanization
Episode 355: Proper Confidence Revisited
Episode 354: From Order to Chaos: The Unraveling of the Post-Cold War Dream
Episode 353: The Death of the World's Conscience
Episode 352: What's so Holy about this Saturday?
Episode 351: Spy Wednesday
Episode 350: Holy Moly, it's Holy Monday!
Episode 349: The Politics of Palm Sunday
Episode 348: Liberation Day!
Episode 347: Is Trump Waging a War on Christianity?
Episode 346: Betting on Pascal
Episode 345: The New Constantine?
Episode 344: The Negative Space
Episode 343: Christian Realism or Pagan Cynicism?
Episode 342: Is MAGA The White Man's Rastafarianism?
Episode 341: Where is the Progressive Outrage over Kfir Bibas?
Episode 340: Hillbilly Curia?
Episode 339: A House Divided Against Itself?
Episode 338: Whose Christ? What Culture?
Episode 337: American Political Heresies
Episode 336: An Ode To Repugnance
Episode 335: What would Capon have said to President Trump?
Episode 334: Shall We Overcome?
Episode 333: Has Democracy's Expiration Date Passed?
Episode 332: Monday Monday!
Episode 331: The Philosophical Roots of "Wokeism"
Episode 330: The Quest for the Historical Adam
Episode 329: A Shocking Faith
Episode 328: The Jewishness of Jesus
Episode 327: The Ecology of Christmas
Episode 326: The Wind Cries Mary, with special guest Matt Milliner
Episode 325: Bad Religion?
Episode 324: An Address to some of Christianity's "Cultured Despisers"
Episode 323: The Rise of Cultural Christianity
Episode 322: A Manichean Memento
Episode 321: The Gospel according to Peterson
Episode 320: It's Friday, Sunday's Coming!
Episode 319: Christ the King
Episode 318: The Real Election Podcast
Episode 317: Confessing the Faith Today, part 1
Episode 316: Our Post-Election Autopsy
Episode 315: A Requiem for the Evangelical Left
Episode 314: The Promise of Presuppositionalism
Episode 313: Two Truths Are Better Than None
Episode 312: Theological Family Trees
Episode 311: The Birth of Tragedy
Episode 310: Hulkamaniacs Are Running Wild!
Episode 309: Failure of Nerve
Episode 308: Hamilton, Burr and Atheistic Arguments
Episode 307: We're all Dogmatic...Get over It!
Episode 306: Motel Six or Seal Team Six?
Episode 305: Our First 2024 Post-Debate Show
Episode 304: The French Connection
Episode 303: Israel, Antisemitism, and the War in Gaza
Episode 302: By Popular Demand, We're Back Again!
Episode 301: The Dove Awards and Underrated Neanderthals
Episode 300: We Celebrate Episode 300, with Benyamin Cohen
Episode 299: My Country for a Speaker!
Episode 298: Republican Debates and Original Sin
Episode 297: The Day of Atonement
Episode 296: We're Back!
Episode 295: Shall The Fundamentalists Win?
Episode 294: Our Holiday 2021 Wrap Up
Episode 293: Our Rittenhouse Report
Episode 292: 1776: Should We Have Fought The Revolutionary War?
Episode 291: Illiberal Liberalism?
Episode 290: Should We Fear God?
Episode 289: We're Back!
Episode 288: To Be Free Or Not To Be
Episode 287: American Paganism
Episode 286: Infinite Love?
Episode 285: The Two Popes
Episode 284: Merry Christmas
Episode 283: Iconoclasm
Episode 282: Fully Human, Fully Divine
Episode 281: Arianism
Episode 280: No Gnosis is Good Gnosis...
Episode 279: Modalism: The Clark Kent/Superman Trinity
Episode 278: Marcion, Thor and YHWH
Episode 277: Docetism
Episode 276: Jesus, Judaism and the Early Church
Episode 275: The Romance of Orthodoxy
Episode 274: Summer Potpourri
Episode 273: Guns, God and White Supremacism
Episode 272: Kissing The Faith Goodbye
Episode 271: Us, Them, Trump, and The Squad
Episode 270: Apocalypse Now?
Episode 269: The Gift of Wonder, with Christine Sine
Episode 268: The One, The Three and The Many
Episode 267: Game of Thrones and the End of Empathy
Episode 266: Can a Command be a Gift?
Episode 265: The Battle of the Dead and the Source of Life
Episode 264: Is The Christian Life Worth Living?
Episode 263: Christological Exegesis?
Episode 262: Navigating Social Change
Episode 261: Bullgeschichte, with Adam Borneman
Episode 260: The Prodigal God
Episode 259: The Mueller Malaise, Part 2
Episode 258: Are We Heading For Mueller Malaise?
Episode 257: The Person vs The Principle
Episode 256: Our Culture of Contempt
Episode 255: The Methodist Church Controversy
Episode 254: The Visible and the Invisible
Episode 253: Facts Don't Change People's Minds
Episode 252: The Righteous and The Woke...Flip Sides of the Same Coin?
Episode 251: Talking Theology, Culture and Counter-Culture with Dave Fitch
Episode 250: 250!
Episode 249: Grace is Grace
Episode 248: What We Worry About
Episode 247: Origen, Irenaeus, and The Meaning of Christmas
Episode 246: Keep the Christendom in Christmas
Episode 245: Keeping The Faith
Episode 244: Talking Politics at Thanksgiving
Episode 243: Why We Need Evil
Episode 242: It's Been a Rough Week in America
Episode 241: The Rich White Civil War
Episode 240: The Politics of the Cross
Episode 239: Politics after Kavanaugh
Episode 238: Is There a Philosophy of the Cross?
Episode 237: Death
Episode 236: A Post-Christian Conservatism?
Episode 235: What Was Paul's Problem Anyway?
Episode 234: Does The Media Get The Church?
Episode 233: Socialism on the Rise?
Episode 232: Infrastructure and Tradition
Episode 231: Patriotism and Nationalism
Episode 230: Nature and Grace
Episode 229: The Show About Nothing
Episode 228: When Politics Shapes Religion
Episode 227: God, Predestination and Evil
Episode 226: Calvin and Predestination
Episode 225: The Little Luther
Episode 224: The Laodicean Augustine
Episode 223: Creation and Fall
Episode 222: Creation In Anticipation
Episode 221: Faith Without Understanding
Episode 220: The Forgotten Trinity
Episode 219: Original Sin
Episode 218: Greater Things
Episode 217: Jerusalem
Episode 216: Rabbi
Episode 215: King
Episode 214: Law, Grace, Life and Love
Episode 213: Priest
Episode 212: Prophet
Episode 211: Kierkegaard and Comey
Episode 210: The Humor of Christ
Episode 209: The Future of the Politics of Freedom
Episode 208: Jordan Peterson on the Significance of Easter
Episode 207: God's Death, Our Life
Episode 206: Bullgeschichte Session, with Todd Littleton
Episode 205: More on the Essence of Christianity
Episode 204: Self-Deception
Episode 203: Evangelicals and the Trump Temptation
Episode 202: Baptism
Episode 201: Billy Graham the Evangelist and Our Thoughts on Evangelism
Episode 200: Our 200th episode! With Special Guest Mark Oppenheimer
Episode 199: To Ash or Not to Ash...
Episode 198: Two Natures? One Person?
Episode 197: The Game of the Century and Theology as Language Game
Episode 196: Luther's Dark Side
Episode 195: Why Do Evangelicals Still Support Trump?
Episode 194: What's in a Name?
Episode 193: Is It Getting Better?
Episode 192: A New Tone for a New Year?
Episode 191: The Mystery Of Christmas
Episode 190: Does The Virgin Birth Make Sense, part 2
Episode 189: Does The Virgin Birth Make Sense, part 1
Episode 188: Reflecting on The Legacy of R.C. Sproul
Episode 187: What Does Roy Moore's Defeat Mean For America and Its Christians?
Episode 186: From Ideology To Tribalism?
Episode 185: Theology In Outline, Part 6: Advent and Eschatology
Episode 184: Friday Night Lights...Robin Hood, Taxes, Kickers and Punters
Episode 183: Revolution and Reform
Episode 182: Escaping Roy Moore's Evangelicalism
Episode 181: Sober Faith
Episode 180: Where Does Creativity Come From?
Episode 179: Manners, Motives and Public Discourse
Episode 178: The Euthyphro Problem?
Episode 177: Glorious Things Of...?...A Reformation Reflection
Episode 176: Gods, Gopniks and Godlessness
Episode 175: Is Liberalism Conservative?
Episode 174: What Is Sacred?
Episode 173: The Eight Hour Sermon?
Episode 172: Theology In Outline, Part 6: Where Does One Begin?
Episode 171: Guns
Episode 170: The Lost Art Of Disagreement
Episode 169: Theology In Outline, Part 5: The Problem of Evil
Episode 168: Praying Angry?
Episode 167: Theology In Outline, Part 4: The Nature of Sin
Episode 166: The Challenge of Living in the Present
Episode 165: Theology In Outline, Part 3
Episode 164: Theology In Outline, Part 2
Episode 163: Theology In Outline, Part 1
Episode 162: Luther Versus Augustine
Episode 161: Bullgeschichte: Nietzsche and the Neo-Nazis, with Ben Maddison
Episode 160: A Lasting Hope
Episode 159: Anxiety and Hope
Episode 158: Bullgeschichte: Horton hears a...?, with Nikki Kelley Kleinberg
Episode 157: Charlottesville Reflection Roundtable, hosted by the Crackers and Grape Juice Podcast
Episode 156: The Death of Ambition
Episode 155: Bullgeschichte, Friday Night Lights & Law/Gospel, with Adam Morton
Episode 154: T.S. Eliot on Revelation
Episode 153: We Need Humanism
Episode 152: The Hermeneutics Episode?
Episode 151: The Lost Prophecy of Father Joseph Ratzinger
Episode 150: Happy Anniversary To Us!
Episode 149: Friendship Revisited
Episode 148: Judge Not...
Episode 147: Fight or Flight Revisited
Episode 146: Secular Modern Life?
Episode 145: Freedom then and Now
Episode 144: Why The Saved Need Saving
Episode 143: Truth, Heresy...can you know the Difference?
Episode 142: Love The World?
Episode 141: Narcissism and the Love of Self
Episode 140: Why Can't We All Just Get Along?
Episode 139: Highway to...Hell?
Episode 138: Can God Be God Without Us?
Episode 137: Friday Night Lights: More on the Spirit
Episode 136: The Holy Spirit
Episode 135: Friday Night Lights: Gods Old & New
Episode 134: Monuments and Memory
Episode 133: Ascension Matters
Episode 132: The Alienated Mind
Episode 131: Where Do Words Come From?
Episode 130: From Russia With Love
Episode 129: The Road Not Taken
Episode 128: Faith, Fragility and Friendship
Episode 127: What Is Sophistry?
Episode 126: Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
Episode 125: A House Divided?
Episode 124: Wisdom
Episode 123: The Myth of the Christian Worldview
Episode 122: Bullgeschichte...Thoughts On Things "Constantinian"
Episode 121: Humility
Episode 120: Saturday Night Dead
Episode 119: The Hysterical Quest For The Historical Jesus
Episode 118: Friday Night Lights...Proper Confidence & The Copa Cabana
Episode 117: Law and Gospel or Gospel is Law?
Episode 116: Friday Night Lights...Kung Fu Fighting
Episode 115: The Death of Truth?
Episode 114: Liberal Fundamentalism?
Episode 113: Love Wants You To Be
Episode 112: Peace, Love and Understanding
Episode 111: Love and The Remoteness of God
Episode 110: Love & The Zacchaeus Option
Episode 109: Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Episode 108: To Know Is To Love
Episode 107: All You Need Is Love?
Episode 106: Science Versus Faith?
Episode 105: The Age of Rudeness?
Episode 104: Trump Around
Episode 103: A New Relativism?
Episode 102: American Exceptionalism
Episode 101: Natural Law
Episode 100: More On The Truth
Episode 99: Truth and Bull@#!$
Episode 98: The Myth Of Objectivity?
Episode 97: Conversation and Criticism
Episode 96: Love Is What We Need
Episode 95: Lights Old And New
Episode 94: The Variety of Religious Experience
Episode 93: Patience
Episode 92: Born of a Woman
Episode 91: The Electoral College
Episode 90: West World Wrap Up
Episode 89: Do I Have To Believe In My Belief?
Episode 88: Let’s Get (Meta)Physical!
Episode 87: Are The Times Changing?
Episode 86: Election Matters
Episode 85: Law V Grace…Part 2?
Episode 84: The Reformation…Was Anything Lost?
Episode 83: Prayer For A Nation?
Episode 82: The True, The Good, And The Beautiful
Episode 81: Debate Wrap Up #2, Once More Into The Breach My Friends!
Episode 80: The Nature Of Freedom, Part 2
Episode 79: Libertarianism And The Nature Of Freedom
Episode 78: One Toke Over The Line
Episode 77: Trump V Hillary
Episode 76: Thank You For Being Our Friends
Episode 75: Not All Atheism Is Created Equal
Episode 74: The Anger Index
Episode 73: Have You Been To Canaan…And Do You Want To Go Back Again?
Episode 72: Wasteland?
Episode 71: Evangelicals Politicizing The Trinity?
Episode 70: Another Week In Review
Episode 69: World On Fire…?
Episode 68: Was 1776 A Mistake?
Episode 67: Donald Trump Is Born Again (?)
Episode 66: Should Tragedies Change Our Thinking?
Episode 65: The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same?
Episode 64: The Eve Of Destruction?
Episode 63: Looking For Love In All The (Wrong?) Virtual Places
Episode 61: Hell
Episode 60: A Church Of Thrones?
Episode 59: What’s Scarier Than Us Talking About Science?
Episode 58: Solid Gold Jesus: Jesus, By The Velvet Underground
Episode 57: Fighting Fair
Episode 56: Bare Necessities
Episode 55: The Death Of Moral Relativism?
Episode 51: Guilt
Episode 49: Loss
Episode 48: This American Religious Life: Greg Strawbridge
Episode 46: Trump Vs. Francis
Episode 39: The Faces of Jesus
Episode 36: Is The God Of Muhammad The Father Of Jesus Christ?
Episode 35: Is This A Wonderful Life?
Episode 34: There’s Something About Mary
Episode 33: Mirror Mirror On The Wall…A Demographic Reflection Of American Values
Episode 32: The Official Guide To Surviving Political Arguments With Family and Friends During The Holidays
Episode 31: Where Do We Sleep When Our Beds Are Burning?
Episode 24: How Do People Change?
Episode 21: Fight or Flight?
Episode 20: I Think Therefore…?
Episode 18: Friends
Episode 17: Don’t Worry, Be…Happy?
Episode 13: Know Thy Selfie
Episode 12: Beware The Maelstrom
Episode 10: I Fought The Law
Episode 9: Blessed Are The Vulnerable
Episode 8: Did God Kill Jesus?
Episode 4: The End Of The Word As We Know It…But Please Not In Winter!!!
Episode 3: Lost In Translation, Part 2
Episode 2: Lost In Translation, Part 1.
Episode 1: Summer Super Hero Movie Extravaganza